Method
- Soak the rajma in water over night.
- Cook the soaked beans in pressure cooker for 6 whistles.
- Chop the onion finely and keep it aside.
- Mash the cooked rajma into a smooth paste.
- You can even run it in mixie adding some water to it to make the paste.
- Take 3 tsps of oil in a pan and drop in the cumin seeds.
- Once it splutters, add the chopped onion and fry until it turns golden brown.
- Now add the mashed rajma paste to the pan along with chilly powder, garam masala, turmeric powder, sugar and salt.
- Mix them well and cook on medium flame for a while till it becomes thick.
- Switch off the flame and add the lemon extract to it and mix well until it blends.
- Finally add finely chopped coriander leaves and mix well.
- Rajma filling is ready.
- Make lemon sized balls of rajma filling and keep it ready.
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Make chapathi dough and roll out balls bigger than the rajma balls.
- Flour the work surface and roll the chapathi slightly into a thick circle and place the filling ball in the center and gather the dough from all the sides and seal the ball.
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Press the ball slightly and roll the paratha gently into a large circle of 1/4 inch thickness.
- The trick is to roll it without the filling getting exposed.
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Roast the paratha on tawa by adding few drops of oil.
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Rajma paratha is ready to serve.
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Serve with thick curd or raitha of your choice.
Recipe courtesy: 4th sense cooking